Lorsque juste avant de nous quitter le 18 août dernier, tu m’as demandé si l’on pouvait rester ami, je t’ai répondu que c’était impossible pour moi. Pas après ce que nous avions vécu. Cela serait contraire à ma façon de penser, c’est-à-dire, à ma façon de regarder vers l’avant. J’ai eu le courage et la force de nous projeter dans une relation, vers l’avenir. Passer du stade d’amis, au stade d’amants. Mais je ne peux pas revenir en arrière. En déambulant dans les rues de Bali, je suis tombé sur cette citation du Dalaï Lama : « Le Bonheur n’est pas une chose toute faite, il vient de notre propre action ». C’est pour cela que je ne peux pas laisser mon roseau fragile être balloté à tous les vents. Je me dois de découvrir, aujourd’hui plus que jamais, par la force de la pensée, de la volonté et par l’amour, les sources d’une vie harmonieuse et équilibrée.
Pour ce qui est d’avoir de mes nouvelles, quel intérêt ? Avec ce que tu penses de moi, et si tu es si sûr que je suis celui qui a fauté, je ne comprends pas que tu puisses encore d’intéresser à ce qui peut bien m’arriver. Je pense avoir suffisamment été pris pour un con, pour encore avoir à subir le couplet « en mémoire de ce que l’on a vécu…blablabla ». Alléluia, Amen ! S’il devait y avoir un couplet comme celui-ci, je pense que tu réaliserais vraiment ce que tu as anéanti par ta soi-disant raison.
Comme je l’ai dit, la seule chose pour laquelle je sois coupable, c’est de t’avoir aimé trop. Car pour le reste, je sais qui je suis et je sais avec combien d’hommes j’ai couché ces 8 derniers mois. Je suis innocent et je clamerai mon innocence aussi fort que je peux. Je n’ai rien à confesser, rien à me faire pardonner.
Mon cœur et mon âme sont en paix car libre de toute culpabilité.
Je n’irai jamais jusqu’à dire que je suis un saint, mais en terme d’amour, je sais que mon cœur est pur. Dans ses « Pensées », Pascal déclare que « le cœur de l’homme est creux et plein d’ordure ! ». Et pour cause, ces ordures sont son égoïsme, sa recherche du plaisir plutôt que du vrai bonheur. Ces ordures sont le néant des plaisirs éphémères qui, par une répétition sans plénitude aucune, devient vite un vent dévastateur qui s’engouffre, emporte et nous laisse vides. Si aujourd’hui je me permets de dire que mon cœur est pur c’est parce que je suis fatigué des ces hommes de passage qui laissent mon cœur comme un lendemain de bombardements sur un champ de Verdun.
Je veux croire que si penser fait la grandeur de l’Homme, c’est surtout penser avec son cœur qui le mènera sur l’Everest du Bonheur.
Oh, je vois déjà vos têtes ! Je vous entends déjà dire que j’ai complètement disjoncté, que je vis un peu trop dans le rose. Et pourquoi pas ? Je ne vois pas la nécessité d’enfoncer d’avantage les clous dans les plaies. Il y a suffisamment de marteaux qui s’y emploient. Honnêtement, pourquoi les gens deviennent-ils aussi noirs, écœurés (au vrai sens propre du terme, sans cœur) et sans espoir en la vie et l’amour ? Chaque jour, nous sommes tous emprisonnés dans un mouroir sans pouvoir trouver d’issue ni de cause. Tout autour de nous est corruption, injustice, odeur de mort et de maladie. Alors l’Amour ne devient qu’un mensonge vide de sens…et les Hommes perdent leur foi en l’Amour. On se laisse envahir par toutes ces idées noires qui nous entourent et le doute, le mensonge et la traitrise viennent habiter jusque dans notre propre cœur.
Oui, mon cœur est pur. Certains appellent cela de la naïveté. Au contraire, quelle clairvoyance ! Je ne veux pas faire partie de ceux dont le cœur est creux et plein d’ordure. Cela fait longtemps que je pense cela, mais il semble qu’il me fallait encore passer par cette épreuve douloureuse, qu’a été notre relation, pour me révéler encore plus. je suis las de ces plaisirs éclairs, de toutes ces mascarades.
Entre le Plaisir et le Bonheur, il faut choisir. Je ne veux pas être comme toi. Je me souviens, que dans tous tes moments de détresse, de peur et de tristesse, tu attendais que je sois là, juste pour te faire sourire. Quelle bêtise ! Trouver le Bonheur, ce n’est pas seulement trouver quelqu’un qui soit là juste pour te faire sourire ou qui prétende être heureux à longueur de journée, une pauvre marionnette avec un seul costume de clown. Certes, il faut savoir profiter de la vie et de ses plaisirs…MAIS…il ne faut pas vivre que de ça ! Le Bonheur n’est pas fait que de plaisirs ! Maintenant, je comprends mieux qu’il faille avoir connu les pleurs et les poings, pour connaître la valeur d’un sourire et d’une caresse. Sans être du masochisme, je suis persuadé que le choix de son propre Bonheur, comme le dit la formule du mariage « pour le meilleur et pour le pire », est plus gratifiant qu’un épicurisme, un hédonisme égoïste (mais je doute que tu saches un jour ouvrir les yeux et ton cœur à cette philosophie !).
Telle est ma première constatation en guise de première partie à la conclusion de cette trilogie.
Mais, revenons à toi. Toi et ta raison à toute épreuve. Le « grand » Dr. GAB et sa grandiose raison ! Je t’ai avoué que j’étais tombé sous le charme, que je t’avais aimé jusque dans ta façon de prier. Je garde toujours au fond de moi, ces instants magiques où je t’ai connu aussi humble. Mais aujourd’hui, je me demande : où est la raison d’un homme aussi croyant ? Comment un homme aussi sublime d’intégrité dans ses prières peut-il avoir une raison aussi tranchante ? Où est ta raison dans ta foi ? Pour moi, tout ceci est tellement contradictoire. Car c’est ton cœur qui est sensée sentir ton Dieu et non ta raison…et Dieu est sensible au cœur, non à la raison. Mais toi, qui affirme bien fort que tu « t’obliges » (le terme est déjà tellement choquant !) à suivre ta raison, tu sais avoir foi en Dieu, c’est-à-dire croire en quelque chose que tu ne vois pas…mais tu ne peux pas (ou ne veux pas) croire en un amour gratuit, pur et complètement palpable. Où est la raison dans tout ça ? Quelle peine devant tant de cécité !
J’ai bien peur que tu ne connaisses jamais le Bonheur si tu n’apprends pas à reconnaître les limites de ta raison pour ne pas la laisser gouverner ta vie.
Méfie-toi d’un pur intellectualisme et de l’impérialisme de la raison. Accorde-lui toute la puissance, et ta raison se croira capable de tout embrasser, de tout maîtriser.
Ta foutue raison ne fait que te renvoyer à toi-même. Tu restes dans ton petit cercle réflexif, dans ta petite relation de toi à toi-même où ta raison réfléchit ta propre expérience, comme Narcisse et son reflet. Continue à te complaire dans le cercle infernal de ton ego, et tu n’assimileras ni n’accepteras jamais la part de vérité de l’autre, ses différences, ses souffrances.
Comme je suis heureux de m’être très vite heurté aux limites de la raison, et d’y avoir consenti quitte à passer pour un pauvre fou dont l’Amour contrôlera toujours la vie.
En conclusion, voici ce que j’ai au fond du cœur. Croire en l’autre, lui faire confiance n’implique en aucune manière de « perdre la raison » ou de s’opposer à elle. C’est un acte de raison que de se rendre compte de son impuissance. Seul l’Amour véritable ne nous entraîne pas dans les tourbillons de la vie, ne nous assujettit pas à ses impératifs. Seul l’Amour nous monte, nous emporte toujours plus haut, vers les sommets de n’importe quel Everest. Et aucune science, aucun test sanguin, aucune raison (et certainement pas la tienne) n’égalera jamais l’Amour et la Compassion.
Je terminerai sur cette citation d’Albert Einstein (1879-1955) :
« Deux choses sont infinies : l’univers et la bêtise humaine,
En ce qui concerne l’univers, je n’ai pas acquis la certitude absolue. »
Time has come to really end it up with all this sorrow which kills my heart. That will not take me anywhere. I made a mistake. I have been so fascinated by the powerful image that l could get from my own speech, plugged by what I thought of being the good, I did not see the part of truth and any of your contrary arguments. Maybe I forgot to listen to your heart properly, and remained blind and deaf to your words. Until forgetting about you indeed. Here is my only fault.
Before leaving each other on last 18th of August, you asked me whether we still could remain friends. I answered you that it was impossible for me. Not after what we have lived. That would be in opposition with my way of thinking, i.e., with my way of always looking ahead. I had the courage and the strength to project us in a relation, towards the future. I can evolve from friend to lover. But I cannot step back. While sauntering on the streets in Bali, I found this quote from Dalaï Lama:
"Happiness is not something ready made; it comes from our own action".
That’s why I can’t let to my fragile reed being played with the winds. I must discover, today more than ever, by the strength of my mind, of my will and by the true Love, the way to a harmonious and balanced life.
As far as getting some news from me, what’s the point? After having heard what you think of me (and if you are so sure that I am the one who cheated and fucked around), I do not understand that you still can care about what happens to me. I was being played for a fool for long enough. So, I don’t need to read the full act "in memory of what we have lived... blablabla". Halleluiah, Amen! If there were to be a verse like this one, I think that you should understand more what you destroyed by your so-called reason.
As I said, the only thing that I would be guilty of, it’s to have loved you too much. Because for the remainder, I know who I am and I know with how many men I had sex for the last 8 months. I am innocent and I will yell my innocence as loud as I can. I have nothing to confess, nothing to ask for forgiveness. My heart is fully in peace because clean of any culpability.
I shall never say that I am a saint, but in term of love, I know that my heart is pure. In his "Pensées", Pascal declares that "the heart of the man is hollow and full with rubbish!”. As a matter of fact, this rubbish is his selfishness, his search for pleasures rather than the true happiness. This rubbish is nothing but the transitory pleasures which, by being used over and over again, quickly become a destroying wind which invades, carries and leaves us empty. So today I allow myself to say that my heart is pure because I am tired with these passing men, these one-night stand men, these coward men who leave my heart like a battle field after bombardments.
I want to believe that if Thinking makes a man, then Thinking with our heart will take us on the Everest of Happiness. Oh, I can picture your faces! I know that you would say that I am just a fool, and that my life is like “La vie en Rose”. But why not? Why should we keep inserting nails in the wounds? There are enough hammers to do that out there. Honestly, why people become so dark inside, heartless (in the real meaning) and without hope in Life and Love? Each day, we feel like in a death raw without being able to find any exit or any cause.
We are surrounded at any time with corruption, injustice, smell of Death and diseases. Then Love becomes only one more meaningless lie... Then Men lose their faith in Love. Men let themselves being invaded by all these dark thoughts which surround us. Then the doubt, the lie and the betrayal reach and live in our inner heart.
Yes, my heart is pure. Some call that “naivety”. On the contrary, what a perspicacity! I do not want to be part of those whose the heart is hollow and full with rubbish. I have been thinking that for a long time, but it seems that it was necessary for me still to pass by this painful test, called our relation, in order to make me grow up a bit more. I am tired of these flash-pleasures, of all these masquerades.
Between Pleasure and Happiness, we have to choose. I do not want to be like you. I remember that in all your moments of distress, fear and sadness, you just wanted me to be there, just to make you smile. What a silly thing! Happiness doesn’t mean to find somebody who is just there to make you smile or who pretends to be happy all day long, a poor puppet with only one clown costume. Admittedly, we all need to enjoy Life and its pleasures... BUT... that’s not enough! Happiness is not only made of pleasures! Now, I understand better than it is necessary to have known the tears and the fists, to know the value of a smile and a caress. Without being masochist, I am convinced that choosing our own Happiness, like said during a wedding ceremony "for the best and for the worst", is more gratifying than an Epicureanism, an egoistic hedonism (but I doubt that you can one day open your eyes and your heart with this philosophy!).
That would be my first observation as a first part of the conclusion for this trilogy.
But, let’s get back to YOU. You and your unbeatable reason. The "Great" Dr. GAB and his imposing reason! I confessed to you that I had fallen under the charm, that I had loved you up to the way you pray. I will always keep deep inside of me these magic moments where I found you so humble. But today, I wonder: where is the reason of a Believer? How such a sublime man with such integrity in its prayers can have such a sharp reason? Where is your reason in your faith? For me, all of this is so contradictory. Because only your heart is supposed to feel your God and not your reason... and God are sensitive to someone’s heart, not to someone’s reason. But you, the one who "forces" himself (the term is already so shocking!) to follow his own reason, you believe in God, i.e. to believe in something that you do not see... but you cannot (or do not want) believe in a free, pure and completely handly touchable love. Where is the reason in all of that? Such a waste for being so blind!
I am kind of afraid that you will never know what Happiness is if you do not learn how to realize the limits of your reason in order not to let it control your life. Be careful of a pure intellectualism and imperialism of the reason. Grant it with all the power, and your reason will think able to cover everything, to control anything. Your fucking reason does nothing but reflecting yourself. You stay in your small reflexive circle, your small relation between you and yourself where your reason reflects your own experience, like Narcissus and his own reflection. Keep enjoying staying in the infernal circle of your ego, and you will not assimilate nor will never accept the Truth that exists in someone else’s heart nor his differences nor his sufferings.
I am so glad to have run up against the limits of the reason, and to agree with them, even if I have to be seen as a fool whose Love will always control the life.
In conclusion, here is what I have deep inside my heart. To believe in someone, to trust someone does not mean in any way "to lose your reason" or to be against it. As a matter of fact, it is an act of reason to realize its impotence. Only the true Love does not involve us in the swirls of Life, does not make us slave to its requirements. Only the true Love always takes us higher, takes us to the tops of any Everest. And no science, no blood test, no reason (and certainly not “your reason”) will never be even with Love and Compassion.
Before leaving each other on last 18th of August, you asked me whether we still could remain friends. I answered you that it was impossible for me. Not after what we have lived. That would be in opposition with my way of thinking, i.e., with my way of always looking ahead. I had the courage and the strength to project us in a relation, towards the future. I can evolve from friend to lover. But I cannot step back. While sauntering on the streets in Bali, I found this quote from Dalaï Lama:
"Happiness is not something ready made; it comes from our own action".
That’s why I can’t let to my fragile reed being played with the winds. I must discover, today more than ever, by the strength of my mind, of my will and by the true Love, the way to a harmonious and balanced life.
As far as getting some news from me, what’s the point? After having heard what you think of me (and if you are so sure that I am the one who cheated and fucked around), I do not understand that you still can care about what happens to me. I was being played for a fool for long enough. So, I don’t need to read the full act "in memory of what we have lived... blablabla". Halleluiah, Amen! If there were to be a verse like this one, I think that you should understand more what you destroyed by your so-called reason.
As I said, the only thing that I would be guilty of, it’s to have loved you too much. Because for the remainder, I know who I am and I know with how many men I had sex for the last 8 months. I am innocent and I will yell my innocence as loud as I can. I have nothing to confess, nothing to ask for forgiveness. My heart is fully in peace because clean of any culpability.
I shall never say that I am a saint, but in term of love, I know that my heart is pure. In his "Pensées", Pascal declares that "the heart of the man is hollow and full with rubbish!”. As a matter of fact, this rubbish is his selfishness, his search for pleasures rather than the true happiness. This rubbish is nothing but the transitory pleasures which, by being used over and over again, quickly become a destroying wind which invades, carries and leaves us empty. So today I allow myself to say that my heart is pure because I am tired with these passing men, these one-night stand men, these coward men who leave my heart like a battle field after bombardments.
I want to believe that if Thinking makes a man, then Thinking with our heart will take us on the Everest of Happiness. Oh, I can picture your faces! I know that you would say that I am just a fool, and that my life is like “La vie en Rose”. But why not? Why should we keep inserting nails in the wounds? There are enough hammers to do that out there. Honestly, why people become so dark inside, heartless (in the real meaning) and without hope in Life and Love? Each day, we feel like in a death raw without being able to find any exit or any cause.
We are surrounded at any time with corruption, injustice, smell of Death and diseases. Then Love becomes only one more meaningless lie... Then Men lose their faith in Love. Men let themselves being invaded by all these dark thoughts which surround us. Then the doubt, the lie and the betrayal reach and live in our inner heart.
Yes, my heart is pure. Some call that “naivety”. On the contrary, what a perspicacity! I do not want to be part of those whose the heart is hollow and full with rubbish. I have been thinking that for a long time, but it seems that it was necessary for me still to pass by this painful test, called our relation, in order to make me grow up a bit more. I am tired of these flash-pleasures, of all these masquerades.
Between Pleasure and Happiness, we have to choose. I do not want to be like you. I remember that in all your moments of distress, fear and sadness, you just wanted me to be there, just to make you smile. What a silly thing! Happiness doesn’t mean to find somebody who is just there to make you smile or who pretends to be happy all day long, a poor puppet with only one clown costume. Admittedly, we all need to enjoy Life and its pleasures... BUT... that’s not enough! Happiness is not only made of pleasures! Now, I understand better than it is necessary to have known the tears and the fists, to know the value of a smile and a caress. Without being masochist, I am convinced that choosing our own Happiness, like said during a wedding ceremony "for the best and for the worst", is more gratifying than an Epicureanism, an egoistic hedonism (but I doubt that you can one day open your eyes and your heart with this philosophy!).
That would be my first observation as a first part of the conclusion for this trilogy.
But, let’s get back to YOU. You and your unbeatable reason. The "Great" Dr. GAB and his imposing reason! I confessed to you that I had fallen under the charm, that I had loved you up to the way you pray. I will always keep deep inside of me these magic moments where I found you so humble. But today, I wonder: where is the reason of a Believer? How such a sublime man with such integrity in its prayers can have such a sharp reason? Where is your reason in your faith? For me, all of this is so contradictory. Because only your heart is supposed to feel your God and not your reason... and God are sensitive to someone’s heart, not to someone’s reason. But you, the one who "forces" himself (the term is already so shocking!) to follow his own reason, you believe in God, i.e. to believe in something that you do not see... but you cannot (or do not want) believe in a free, pure and completely handly touchable love. Where is the reason in all of that? Such a waste for being so blind!
I am kind of afraid that you will never know what Happiness is if you do not learn how to realize the limits of your reason in order not to let it control your life. Be careful of a pure intellectualism and imperialism of the reason. Grant it with all the power, and your reason will think able to cover everything, to control anything. Your fucking reason does nothing but reflecting yourself. You stay in your small reflexive circle, your small relation between you and yourself where your reason reflects your own experience, like Narcissus and his own reflection. Keep enjoying staying in the infernal circle of your ego, and you will not assimilate nor will never accept the Truth that exists in someone else’s heart nor his differences nor his sufferings.
I am so glad to have run up against the limits of the reason, and to agree with them, even if I have to be seen as a fool whose Love will always control the life.
In conclusion, here is what I have deep inside my heart. To believe in someone, to trust someone does not mean in any way "to lose your reason" or to be against it. As a matter of fact, it is an act of reason to realize its impotence. Only the true Love does not involve us in the swirls of Life, does not make us slave to its requirements. Only the true Love always takes us higher, takes us to the tops of any Everest. And no science, no blood test, no reason (and certainly not “your reason”) will never be even with Love and Compassion.
My last words to you would be by quoting Albert Einstein (1879-1955):
“There are 2 things without limit: the Universe and the human silliness,
As far as the Universe is concerned, I am still not absolutely certain.”


